Brightsea - Hardcover

Jane Gillespie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0709027710 ISBN 13: 9780709027713

Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd, 1987

Synopsis

Resurrected from Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," Nancy Steeles--the older of the Steele sisters--seems doomed to spinsterhood until she is offered a post as guardian and chaperone for young Louisa Retford at the summer resort of Brightsea

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From Publishers Weekly

The British author's Ladysmead and Teverton Hall were praised as sequels to Jane Austen's classics, faithful in tone to the originals. Here Gillespie focuses on absurd Nancy Steele and her rich married sister, Lucy Ferrars, who caused trouble in Sense and Sensibility. A still hopeful spinster, Nancy deigns to accept a post as companion to modest young Louisa Retford, an orphan whose grandfather sends her to live for the summer in a posh house at the glittering resort, Brightsea. Conflicts arise when Nancy chivvies the girl into the social whirl, luring her away from the quiet companionship of Dorothy and her brother, Martin, who gives Louisa Latin lessons and falls in love with her. There is more tension when poor Nancy deludes herself that a foppish thief has designs on her as his wife rather than on the pendant she has borrowed from Louisa. If not a perfect "Austentation," the novel is neatly understated, imaginative and fun.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0709027710
• ISBN 13: 9780709027713
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160